On September 30, 2020 8:24:01 AM Ilkka Virta <itvi...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 5:53 PM Michael Green <gr...@strato.de> wrote:
The included short script when run with the following command results
in execve "E2BIG (Argument list too long) errors".
* The number of arguments can be tuned down to "seq 1 23694" and it
still occurs, but any lower and it disappears.
That sounds a lot like the 128 kB hard limit Linux puts on the size of a
single argument to exec. (I know it counts for command line arguments, I
expect it also counts for env variables. They're passed in pretty much the
same way anyway.)
It might be worth asking lkml to lift this restriction
seq 1 23694 | wc gives 131058, just a bit less than 131072. Add the
variable name and it goes over. Workaround: use another OS, or pass big
data like that in files.
